Sunday, 15 November 2009

I'm getting married next year in July and I have been busy preparing...in the last few weeks I have found and bought my dress (no photos sorry!), found and bought the bridesmaids' dresses, had a hair trial, had a make up trial, sorted out our wedding rings and booked a load of other stuff! Phew, I've been busy, hence the disappearance from Blogland!

Most importantly, I have finished designing my wedding invitations which I have been agonizing over for months!

The fabulous Steph helped me out and lent me some of her lovely crafty goodies and at long last I finished the front...

...then I had to move on to the inside which I am now really happy with

the little cards come out (as you can see below) and have directions, a map, info about hotels, taxis & gifts as well as a little RSVP card so that people have no excuse not to respond!

And then I moved on to confetti cones (which for some reason my other half does not seem to think are a necessity?!) and cake boxes, both of which I cut out on my Cricut

These will all go in a lovely wicker basket and be given out by my little flower girl

and these I'm going to circle up and put on plates, which I think will look really cool on the day!

And finally (phew, I bet you're thinking!) here are a couple of hair pictures, just because I think I look quite nice!

I am going to enter this lot into this week's Cute Card Thursday challenge which is ''Glitter me silly" because the whole lot has sparkle on it, whether it's little diamontes or full on glitter, even my hair has glittery things in it!!!

Eleanor's Challenges

Eleanor is working towards her Duke of Edinburgh Silver Award and for her Skills section she is making cards. I'm assessing her and set her a new challenge each week.

Eleanor, so you can catch up a bit, here is a list of challenges. Feel free to pick and choose which order you do them in:

1. Clean & Simple (this means most of the background is blank with just 1 or 2 small feature elements/embellishments)2. Totally Tags3. Handmade Flowers4. Boys & Buttons5. Black, white & a splash of colour6. Lots of Layers7. Three in a row8. Over the edge (one element of the card must be over the edge!)9. Ribbon & Lace10. Anything Goes (anything you like!!)11. Bold & Bright12. Texture13. Girly14. Pink, blue, green & cream/white15. Easter16. Mothers Day

Looking forward to seeing what you make

Niki x

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